SMC Casta Painting Question
I’m working on a latin american studies multi-part question and need a sample draft to help me learn.
answer the following questions in around 4 sentences:
1. What is a casta painting? Describe the origins of this type of painting during the end of the colonial period in Latin America and discuss how visual culture shapes collective experiences in Latin America even in the contemporary world. 2. Late-colonial sociopolitical transformations began when royal administrators in both Spain and Portugal planned to tighten their control over their Latin American colonies to extract more revenues from them. Describe how raising taxes, improving the collection of taxes, creating more effective colonial administration, and improving technology to better serve the interests of the empire would have precipitated revolutionary activity in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century South America. 3. How did Latin American nations begin to take shape during the nineteenth century? Discuss how the relationship between political and cultural practices shaped that development. 4. How have extractive technologies impacted environmental conditions and indigenous lives across Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
